Update: AICN was able to get in touch with Jackson’s camp and confirm this rumor as untrue. Jackson, as I speculated in the original story below, will also be tied in projects for the next few years. Peter is interested in 3D but absolutely nothing has settled with the Jackson/New Line feud.
MarketSaw is reporting that Peter Jackson has signed on to direct an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit, split into two separate 3D films. According to MS’s WETA sources, Jackson also intends to convert and rerelease the Lord of the Rings trilogy in 3D as well (sometime between 2012 and 2014).
New Line has not confirmed this story, and for now, this must be considered only as a rumor for now. But we do know this: Peter Jackson is committed to the 3D format. He has even signed on to direct a TinTin trilogy of films with Steven Spielberg in 3D.
Is it really necessary to split The Hobbit into two movies? The 1977 animated television adaptation was only 78 minutes long, but much of the story was simplified and several parts are omitted. In comparison, the BBC Radio 4 radio adaptation of the 320 page book was eight hours in length.
And there is the ongoing legal battle between Jackson and New Line, which has prevented this movie from happening. And Sam Raimi has been waiting in the wings, hoping to get his chance to direct the adaptation. Where does he fit into the picture? Jackson’s directorial plate is pretty full, how would he even find time to commit to a two-picture deal? There are too many questions and not enough answers.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Come on.. you’re quoting a blogspot blog as a source?
Besides, considering that LOTR has already been shot it is highly unlikely that they could “convert it” to 3D without re-shooting pretty much everything.
I don’t believe this for one second.
November 30th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Well now, I know blogspot is a free hoster but didn’t think it had that bad a rep! I will be going to a full fledged hoster soon enough LOL!
Converting 2D to 3D is done all the time! Read up my friend…
Best,
-jim
http://www.marketsaw.com
November 30th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Andreas, you are a retard… why would they need to reshoot LOTR? Are you telling me that they went back and reshot everything for Nightmare Before Christmas so that they could distribute it in 3D these last two years?
Fucking retard.
November 30th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Marketsaw seems to be on the rise, I’ve seen their name on numerous reputable sights this month.
I say bring it on (Hobbit 3-D). We’re going to force the fan boys to eat it and like it!
December 1st, 2007 at 1:44 am
Keep Sam Raimi away from the Hobbit! I couldn’t stomach a Raimi song-and-dance number in Middle Earth :|
December 1st, 2007 at 6:27 am
Zap, thanks for calling me a retard, but the joke is on you my friend, because they DID re-animate everything for Nightmare Before Christmas 3D!
“With THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 3-D, the unprecedented challenge would be to take the 2-D, flat world of the original and give it the depth and dimension of Digital 3-D—without, in any way, altering its innate charms. The first step in the process was to digitize the film—re-animating a “proxy†version of the entire movie in CG—a vast undertaking that fell to Industrial Light & Magic collaborating with In-Three, Inc., under the supervision of ILM’s executive in charge of production, Colum Slevin.”
http://monstermovieblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/nightmare-before-christmas-3d.htm
Jim, I didn’t mean to offend you, but I had never heard of your site before. That fact combined with it being hosted on blogspot and the improbability of LOTR in 3D made me question your post.
The Hobbit in 3D might be possible, but as for Lord of the Rings being re-released, I strongly doubt it.
December 1st, 2007 at 3:58 pm
No offense taken! I plan on bringing MarketSaw to the forefront by being the best site to go to for 3D related news on anything.
2D to 3D conversion takes expertise to be sure, but it is done all the time. A major sponsor of MarketSaw, Passmore Lab, does this very work.
-jim
MarketSaw
December 1st, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Update: Aint it cool news was able to get in touch with Jackson’s camp and confirm this rumor as untrue. Jackson, as I speculated in the original story below, will also be tied in projects for the next few years. Peter is interested in 3D but absolutely nothing has settled with the Jackson/New Line feud.
December 2nd, 2007 at 6:48 am
Thanks for the update Peter! I’m still hoping New Line and Jackson will solve their problems, because if anyone should make The Hobbit, it’s Peter Jackson.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:42 am
Andreas, you are still a retard. They didn’t go back and RESHOOT THE FUCKING MOVIE, YOU DOLT. The “animating” you are referring to is all done the computer, they didn’t have to go back and re shoot the damn picture. Hence why 3D versions of Star Wars and LOTR are underway, you fucking retard.
January 5th, 2008 at 2:11 am
I don’t like such immature foul-mouthed weisenheimers as Zap. Get some manners, will you!
Nightmare before Christmas is an annimated movie, which makes it alot easier to recapture it to computer-transform it.
I for my part want The hobbit to be done and look exactly the same way as The Lord of the rings trilogy. So it will deliver a consistency and won’t appear so strange as iin the case of Star Wars.